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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1961
Page
12
A collection of rural humor critiques the farming economy and modern life. Jokes reference government payments, soybeans and corn, farm banks, crop storage, and old time farming methods. The dialogue pokes at farmers adapting to city life and changing technologies.
The State Mental Health Advisory Committee recommends a Senate bill to make the Wisconsin Psychiatric Institute the headquarters of a state funded research program. It notes about 70 million dollars will be spent this biennium on care for Wisconsin's mentally ill and retarded citizens, while less than 100 thousand would go to preventive research.
Rep. Melvin Laird asks the agriculture secretary to halt imports of Colby cheese. He cites about one million pounds monthly, roughly the same amount the CCC handles under its price support program in April.
Monroe 4 H Club met in the First National Bank community room with Jean Wyss presiding. Mary Ammon led the pledge and Carol Wyss saluted the flag. members named safety devices in roll call. Jerry Phillips and Harold Kern gave project talks. LaVonne Phillips topped a daily judging contest with Carol tying for second.
Richard Sullivan directed the games and the winners were Carol Wyss LaVonne Phillips Nathan Botteron and David Pick. Richard Kern and Harold Kern provided refreshments. The next meeting is Tuesday June 20 at the Harold Pick farm with a wiener roast and a cattle fitting and showing demonstration.
A New York book dealer bid 44,000 dollars to secure a rare first issue of Cervantes Don Quixote at the Parke-Bernet Galleries auction, outbidding a rival dealer.
Keith Funston, president of the New York Stock Exchange, warned that a surge in demand for low priced stocks and unseasoned issues mocks investing and risks financial disaster for tipsters. The run on speculative issues has grown on both the New York and American exchanges as prices and trading volume rise. More low priced issues were listed on the American Exchange.
An inventory filed in Kenosha County Court shows Virginia Krafft Dore, a socialite who died in 1959, left an estate valued at $185,549. Her 1956 will omits mention of husband Francis, to whom she had been married only weeks before she died. Authorities concluded her death resulted from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning after a months-long investigation.
A 75-year-old Mosinee farmer, John M. Fuchs, died Tuesday when a tractor he was driving overturned on him while he worked on his son Francis Fuchs’s farm in the Town of Marathon.
Americans see higher earnings and steady spending with debt growth slowing. Labor data show about 66 million employed and 5 million unemployed job seekers, while overtime and longer weeks reflect rising orders. Inflation edges up in health care and rents, straining fixed incomes despite rising wages and falling delinquencies.
Seven Army officers and 1150 civilian workers remove enough junk from New York harbor annually to form a block wide pile fifteen times taller than the Empire State Building, detailing a massive cleanup effort.
A note observes that municipalities named Washington exist in eleven states apart from the District of Columbia, highlighting the prevalence of the Washington toponym in local government designations.
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